God's Food For Life AlphaOmegaFood.com Volume Five, Number 1, January, 2005 http://www.alphaomegafood.com ddpolk@alphaomegafood.com Contents: Resolved: To Be a Living Sacrifice The Best Whole Food Supplement: BarleyMax Nutritional Teaching by Phone The Power of Regimen to Build Health EcoQuest Household and Personal Care Products Better Support Group Meetings from Hallelujah Acres Starter Packages Simple Fruit Salad Help Clean Up T.V. with One Million Moms and Dads ............................................................................ Resolved: To be a Living Sacrifice Everyone makes new year's resolutions, but few really keep them. Our newsletter this month will try to help you to determine your resolutions and to stick with them. As Christians, we should place our bodies on the altar of service and surrender our lives to the Creator, Saviour, and Sustainer. How do we do that? When the Lord said "take up your cross and follow me", He was referring to being a living sacrifice. In the Old Testament a sacrifice had to be spotless and healthy, the very best it could be. It was considered holy when it was given up as a sacrifice for sin. The ultimate of holiness is being disciplined in eating and drinking. These two drives are the most difficult to bring under subjection. When Satan tempted Eve, he used food because of its power over the flesh. The passage in I Peter 2:9 says "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people, that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light." We Christians, a holy nation, then should maintain a holy temple for the dwelling of the Lord Jesus. With this vision of our mission let us seek to develop a holy lifestyle of disciplined eating and drinking to the glory of our God. ........................................................................... The Best Whole Food Supplement: BarleyMax The last issue of "Back to the Garden" newsletter from Hallelujah Acres has a two page article about the product that Marilyn, Daisy, and I take every day. We used to take a handful of vitamin pills every morning until we realized that they did no good whatsoever. Why do we take BarleyMax? Because it gives us live, organic nutrition that we can count on. Grown at an elevation of over 5000 feet, the barley and alfalfa grow slowly, resulting in more nutritional content. To insure maximum nutrition, the land has cycling periods of barley, alfalfa, and dormant times. Fertilization with barley pulp and aged compost, as well as irrigation from mineral-rich deep wells, assure balanced nutritional content. The land rests for one year each seven years. Plants are harvested in the spring and autumn when they are young and tender. The grasses are cut, ground, and slowly pressed into juice, strained of remaining pulp, and placed in a chilling tank where it is held at 34 degrees to maintain nutrition and enzymes until the drying process. A patented drying process takes the juice to less than 5% moisture with a temperature maximum of 98 degrees F. It takes an average of 25 pounds of fresh barley and alfalfa grass to make one and a half gallons of juice, which makes one pound of BarleyMax. The only difference in the process for BarleyMax and the processes for BeetMax and CarrotJuiceMax is that in order to provide stability and to allow each of the powders to be free flowing, a small amount of organic brown rice syrup is added during the process. The powders are packaged in dark, food-grade plastic containers to protect them from sunlight, the environment, and possible damage during shipping. BarleyMax, BeetMax, and CarrotJuiceMax are superior to any other powdered juice concentrates on the market today.The nutritional composition of BarleyMax, CarrotJuiceMax, and BeetMax is second only to freshly-made barley, carrot, and beet juices, with approximately 90% of the nutrition left intact. See our web site at for further info and pricing. .............................................................................. Nutritional Teaching by Phone The Hallelujah Diet and Lifestyle is a tough road to health without regular encouragement. It takes vision, knowledge, determination, and discipline as well as accountability to stick with this wonderful journey to health and wellness. Have you ever taken a road trip and something went wrong? Who hasn't? Your car broke down, you had a flat, your map was wrong, you took a wrong turn and wound up lost and far away from your original destination. Without signs along the way we can get lost easily. These new automobiles that have GPS tracking are wonderful because they show you a map of where you are and even tell you how far you have gone and how far you lack to reach home. My training and experience in natural health can help you and your family to your destination of recovery from disease and obesity and a return to the right road of wellness. Every journey begins with a VISION of where we want to go. Do you have a vision of health and wellness? The Lord Jesus came that we might have life more abundant. A desire to be somewhere else is strong MOTIVATION for getting on the road to that destination. A vision to be a fit temple for the dwelling of the Holy Spirit is the strongest motivation. But first, we must get the KNOWLEDGE of how to get to our destination. Marilyn and I have a map to wellness, so to speak. Knowing what foods that are healthy and what foods that are dangerous can help your body to heal itself. MONITORING your progress through testing can bring ENCOURAGEMENT and can strengthen your DETERMINATION to get to your destination. Finally, you will develop DISCIPLINE that will keep you targeted on your goals until your journey is memorized and you have developed HABITS that will make traveling this road AUTOMATIC. If you are interested in taking a great trip to wellness, go to , print out the forms, and mail or fax them to us. I will contact you and set up an appointment by phone or in person. The fee is $30.00 minimum and $1.00 per minute after the first half hour. We suggest at least a monthly appointment but can also schedule weekly appointments until you are able to develop your regimen and stick with it. .......................................................................... The Power of Regimen to Build Health The dictionary definition of "regimen" that most closely fits with our Hallelujah Diet and Lifestyle is "A regulated system, as of diet, therapy, or exercise, intended to promote health or achieve another beneficial effect." Most of us know that a habit is an activity that has been developed over at least 21 days of repeated practice. A regimen can become a habit if followed for three weeks or more. So, if we develop a healthy regimen it can become automatic and we won't have to work so hard at disciplining ourselves to follow a healthy lifestyle. How do you develop a healthy regimen? Here are several suggestions. WRITE DOWN your daily schedule and include the necessary foods, supplements, exercise, and other activities that will bring you to health. Marilyn and I always start with prayer on our knees together beside our bed. We then read our Bibles. Taking BarleyMax and carrot juice comes next and then exercise. Make a chart or FOOD JOURNAL and pin it on the refrigerator to help you to remember what to do and when. Be sure to include necessary supplements like B12, probiotics, digestive enzymes, ground flax seed, and other whole foods that will increase your live food intake. Another suggestion is to make a WEEKLY MEAL PLAN and GROCERY LIST of items that you will be having as part of your Hallelujah Diet and Lifestyle regimen. Post the list on your refrigerator or kitchen cabinet so you will have a battle plan for defeating hunger and malnutrition. Marilyn's book "Simple Weekly Meal Plans" is a good place to start your regimen. Whether you write your regimen on paper or put it on your computer, be sure to refer to it often until you have it memorized. After three weeks you should find it easier to stick with God's perfect plan for health. May the Lord give you vision, motivation, knowledge, wisdom, discipline, determination, faith and encouragement to stay the course and end up at the goal of wellness and vitality. Make your regimen a habit and it will pay you great dividends. Hallelujah Acres had to reformat Marilyn's book after encountering problems at the printer. Shipment has been delayed. You can go ahead and order the book and they will ship it out as soon as it is ready. It can be ordered at Hallelujah Acres at 800-915-9355. Please use our PIN, ACO, when ordering. Here is our blessing as you take your journey to wellness. May the road rise to meet you, may the wind blow at your back. May the sun shine warmly on your face. May the rain fall softly on your fields, And until we meet again, until we meet again, May God hold you in the palm of His hand. (Frank Lennon) .............................................................................. EcoQuest Personal and Household Products Looking for safe and effective household and personal products? EcoQuest, a private Christian company based in Greenville, TN can help make your home a healthy home. Along with the best air purifiers, they have personal care products, as well as safe, organic household cleaners. Go to our EcoQuest web site at and browse the products. Sign up as a AAA Preferred Client and get real discounts on these fine products. Automatic orders on consumables can bring even greater discounts.Call us at 877-200-0862 for prices and ordering. ............................................................................. New Support Group Materials from Hallelujah Acres Hallelujah Acres has developed support group meeting materials for Health Ministers. That means your health ministers will have more professionally-prepared meeting materials for the monthly support group meetings that are needed to encourage you in the Hallelujah Diet and Lifestyle. Our local pot luck/support group meeting is scheduled for Saturday, January 15th at 6:00 PM in the Jackson State Community Baptist Student Union building. Please invite someone to come with you, and get ready for a great time of food, sharing, and support. Please call us at 731-423-5313 or email us at: mrpolk@alphaomegafood.com to let us know you are coming. This meeting is FREE to anyone interested in learning how to be healthy apart from drug therapy. The topic for the January meeting will be "Jump Start Your 2005". The February meeting will include an all-raw pot-luck with recipes provided for you at the January meeting. Doug and I have rented the building for 3 months (the third Saturday of each month) so we hope you will come as we strive to encourage you . Remember, "You don't have to be sick!" ......................................................................... Starter Kits for Beginning the Hallelujah Diet and Lifestyle Hallelujah Acres has three Starter Kits that include the essentials for starting the healthy lifestyle: The Silver Starter Kit includes: 2-month supply of BarleyMax, Udo's Choice Oil Blend, God's Way to Ultimate Health, Fiber Cleanse, and Bio-active B12 (which is a blend of B12, B6, and Folic Acid), all for $99, a savings of almost $30 if bought separately. The Gold Starter Kit includes: The Champion Juicer 2000+, Recipes for Life...From God's Garden, and everything in the Silver Starter Kit. Total price for individual items is $419.30, but you get it all for $359, a savings of $60.30. The Platinum Starter Kit includes: Everything that is in the Silver Starter Kit plus the Green Star Juicer, "Green Life, Green Power Juicing Video", Recipes for Life...From God's Garden, and the video "Into to Hallelujah Acres, totalling $670 if bought separately. Our price $569.00, a savings of $101. ........................................................................... Simple Fruit Salad Our family loves this simple salad. It's best to eat the fruit salad first as it digests quickly, then follow it with your cooked food. Or you could eat it as a lunch fruit salad. 3-4 pears, chopped 2-3 bananas, sliced 1/2 cup coarsely chopped walnuts or pecans 1/3 cup pure maple syrup Mix and allow to sit for a few minutes before serving to give a chance for the flavors to mingle. ...................................................................... Help Clean Up T.V. with One Million Moms, Dads, and Youth If you are tired of sex and violence on T.V. send a message to the sponsors of these T.V. programs. Two organizations are making it easier to for your voice to be heard. One Million Moms at or One Million Dads at or One Million Youth at offer great opportunities to affect in a positive way the lives of our families. May God bless you. ........................................................................ A Word from the LORD: "He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls." - Proverbs 25:28 KJV ........................................................................... For Toll Free Ordering ONLY, call 1-877-200-0862. For health consultations and questions about our products, please call 731-423-5313 or email us at ddpolk@alphaomegafood.com. Back Issues of "God's Food For Life" are available on the home page click the Back Issues Button at far right. For information on EcoQuest products, see Doug & Marilyn Polk, Health Ministers AlphaOmegaFood.com 36 Fox Pond Cove Jackson TN 38305-9130 731-423-5313 If you received this email by mistake or if you would like to be removed from the list simply reply to this email and type "remove" in the subject window.